These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Pests and Diseases (Pest Control) Regulations.

2. Interpretation

In these Regulations—

“scheduled pest”means a pest listed in the Schedule.

3. Destruction of infested plants

(1) An inspector may destroy or order by notice in writing the destruction of any plant, or such portion thereof as he considers necessary, which is infested or appears to be infested with a scheduled pest.

(2) In ordering the destruction of a plant or any portion thereof in terms of sub-regulation (1), the inspector may specify the manner in which the plant or portion thereof is to be destroyed.

4. Declaration by Minister of infested or quarantine areas

(1) The Minister may, by order—

(a) declare an area infested with a scheduled pest as an infested area and any area around such infested area as a quarantine area;

(b) prohibit, restrict or regulate the removal of any compost, growing media, manure, plants and other things whatsoever to or from an infested or quarantine area.

(2) The Minister may exempt, subject to such conditions as he may specify, any person from complying with any order made in terms of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1).

5. Declaration by inspector of infested areas

An inspector may, if he reasonably suspects the presence of a scheduled pest on land or in premises—

(a) declare the area in which the land or premises is situate an infested area;

(b) by order, prohibit for a period not exceeding fourteen days, the removal from the land or premises of compost, growing media, manure, plants and other things whatsoever capable of spreading the pest.

6. Destruction of plants in infested or quarantine areas

An inspector may by notice in writing order the owner of any land within an infested or quarantine area to destroy any plant on such land for the purpose of controlling attacks by or the spread of a scheduled pest.

7. Duty to furnish information

An owner of land who knows or has reason to believe that a scheduled pest is present on his land shall immediately report the occurrence in writing to an inspector.

SCHEDULE

[Sch subs by reg 2 of SI 165 of 1996.]

[Regulation 2]

SCHEDULED PESTS

A1. Bacterial blight of grapes

Erwinia vitivora (Baccarini)

A2. Bacterial canker of tomato

Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.

A1. Bacterial ring-rot potato

michiganensis (E.F.S.)

A1. Bacterial streak of sugar cane

Jensen

A1. Blister blight of tea

Corynebacterium

A1. Blue mould of tobacco

Michiganensis subsp.

A1. Chestnut canker

Sepedonicum (Spleck and Kotth.) Skaptason and Burkholder

A1. Sugar cane chlorotic streak Virus

Xanthomonas camperstris

A2. Citrus black spot

pv veculorum

A1. Citrus canker

(Ashby) Dowson

A1. Crown wart of Lucerne

Exobasidium vexans

A1. Dutch elm disease

Massee

A1. Fiji virus of sugar cane

Peronospora tabacina

A1. Fireblight

Adam

A1. Sweet potato internal cork virus disease

Endothia parasitica (Murr.)

A1. Lucerne wilt

Anderson and Anderson

A1. Onion smut

Sugar cane virus

A1. Lucerne dwarf virus

Guignardia citricarpa Klely

A1. Stewart’s disease of maize

Xanthomonas campestris

A1. Strawberry red core

pv citri (Hasse) Down

A1. Tomato spotted wilt virus

Urophlyctis alfalfae

A1. Wart disease of potato

(Lagerh.) Magnus

A1. Golden cyst nematode

Opiostoma ulmi (Buism.)

A1. Stem and bulb nematode

Moreau

A2. Cereal midges

Sugar cane virus 2. Smith

A1. Cherry fruit fly

Erwinia amylovora

A1. Chrysanthemum mide

(Burrill) Winslow et. al.

A1. Coffee berry borer

Sweet potato virus

A1. Colorodo beetle

Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. insidiosum

A1. Japanese beetle

(McDulloch) Jensen

A2. Oriental fruit-moth

Urocystis cepulae Frost

A1. Oriental fruit-moth

Lucerne virus 3. Smith

A2. Pink bollworm

Erwinia stewartii (E.F.S) Down

A1. San Jose scale

Phytophthora fragariae var. frageriae

A3. Diamond-back moth

Hickman

A2. Larger grain borer

Tomato virus 3. Smith

A2. Eucalyptus borer

Snchytrium endobioticum

A2. Luecaena psyllid

(Schiib) Percival

Globodera rostochiensis

Wollenw

Ditlenchus dipsaci

Contarinia spp. And

Sitodiplosis spp.

Rhagoletis cerasi (L.)

Diarthronomyia

Chrysanthemi Ahlb.

Hypothenemus hampei

(Ferr.)

Leptinotarsa decemlineata

(Say)

Popillia japonica Newm.

Docus dorsalis Hend.

Cydia molesta Busck.

Pectinophora gossypiella

(Saund.)

Quadraspidiotus

Perniciosus (Comst.)

Plutella xylostella (L.)

Prostephanus truncates

Horn

Phoracantha semipunctata

Heteropsylla cubana

NOTE:

A1. = Dangerous pests which have not been introduced into the country, and have a

high epidemic potential.

A2. = Dangerous pests which have been introduced in the country but in restricted

Areas and have a moderate epidemic potential.

A3. = Pests which are common or wide spread in the country and need to be

These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Pests and Diseases (Coffee) Regulations.

2. Interpretation

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“borer”means the coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei);

[Subs by reg 2 of SI 150 of 1996.]

“coffee”means any species of the genus Coffea;

“plantation”includes any land on which a coffee plant is growing, whether the land is used solely as a coffee plantation or not;

“sell”includes to offer or expose for sale.

3. Sale or removal of infested plants

No person shall—

(a) sell or cause or permit to be sold;

(b) remove or cause or permit the removal of from his premises; or

(c) transport or cause or permit the transportation of;

any coffee plant infested or appearing to be infested with borer, unless he has written permission from an inspector to do so.

4. Reporting of infestation

The owner of a plantation who knows or has reason to believe that any coffee plant on his land is infested with a pest of coffee shall immediately report the infestation in writing to an inspector.

5. Orders to eradicate pests from plantations

An inspector may by notice in writing order the owner of a plantation which is infested with a pest of coffee, to—

(a) destroy, by burning or by any other method specified by the inspector, all or any coffee plants on the plantation;

(b) spray, fumigate or otherwise treat all or any coffee plants on the plantation;

(c) take such other steps as the inspector may consider necessary for the purpose of controlling attacks by or the spread of the pest.

6. Destruction of infested plants

An inspector may destroy or order in writing the destruction of any plant infested or appearing to be infested with a pest of coffee.

7. Supervision of plantations

(1) The owner of a plantation shall not leave his plantation without that supervision necessary for—

(a) the detection of any infestation by a pest of coffee; and

(b) the carrying out of any measures required by or in terms of these Regulations.

(2) If, in the opinion of an inspector, a plantation is habitually left without that supervision required by subregulation (1) he may, subject to the provisions of sub-regulation (3), by notice in writing order the owner of the plantation to destroy all coffee plants on that plantation.

(3) An inspector shall not order the destruction of a coffee plant in terms of sub-regulation (2) unless authorised to do so by the Permanent Secretary.

[Am by GN 90 of 1964.]

8. Duty to furnish information

Every person who has had in possession or under his charge any coffee infested with borer shall, if so required in writing by an inspector, give the inspector all such information as he possesses as to the person in whose possession or under whose charge such coffee is or has been.

These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Pests and Diseases (Cotton) Regulations.

2. Interpretation

In these Regulations—

“cotton”means the linted species of the genus Gossypium.

3. Cotton lands to be cleared annually

(1) Subject to the provisions of regulation 4, an owner of land cultivated for the production of cotton shall destroy all cotton plants on his land—

(a) on or before the 1st August in each year if that land is situated in an infested area or in a quarantine area;

(b) on or before the 1st October in each year if that land is situated outside an infested area or a quarantine area.

(2) Subject to the provisions of regulation 4, an owner of land in an infested area or in a quarantine area shall not plant cotton on such land before the 1st October in any year.

[Am by GN 90 of 1964.]

4. Exemptions

The Minister may, upon receipt of a written application, exempt, subject to such conditions as he may specify, any person or class of persons from complying with the provisions of sub-regulation (1) or (2) or both sub-regulations of regulation 3.